Dwayne Monroe

Always.

@olivia.science They're going to compel me to do yet another paragraph by paragraph analysis. "Brilliant"! the man said.

Nothing less than the complete smashing of this sector will do.

They really must be utterly destroyed.

Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars From New York City’s Public Hospitals Activists are urging New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation to cut ties with the ICE contractor.

The limitation of public discourse about this to the matter of sharing private data is frustrating. Even if, for the sake of argument, Palantir isn't sharing your personal info, they do an enormous amount of harm with the models they develop from it.

theintercept.com/2026/02/15/p...

"It's not artificial intelligence. It's African intelligence."

Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI.

Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...

Seriously. Every story of "AI will solve climate change" is a children's story to allow us to feel okay with not doing what we know needs doing to save the climate: Transform energy production and reduce use. You are grown ups. Act like it.

True. It's routinely used against indigenous but as we're seeing in the 'AI' push, it's the supposed ubermensch whose minds easily tumble into cultish error (a hazard of thinking one's a special genius)

Yes, feel free!

Also, you've hit upon something deep in the nature of capitalism; owners despise expertise because it's a form of worker power. The fantasy is that skill can be destroyed while preserving profits. Note how the ownership class discusses 'AI' in the business press and LinkedIn

I agree. This is an extreme form of short term thinking. Systems, of course, always fail. Entropy requires constant defense. These deeply foolish people want to undermine the basis for the technosphere they worship; a GPU centered cargo cult

Right!

Screen shot from the 'unreplug' website. The text reads: The number of people who have ever explained why unreplugging works. You just do it. It just works. Don't ask questions.

Besides the boring, and common 'AI' tropes therein, the page creator(s) give us evidence of zero understanding of how systems function in this bit. For decades, people have explained how and why a reset to zero clears errors. What are they on about?

YouTube video by PeriscopeFilm " NUCLEAR PROPULSION IN SPACE " PROJECT NERVA SPACE NUCLEAR PROPULSION OFFICE PROMO FILM 25192

I'm not sure why you assume that US Cold War technology was sane by comparison. youtu.be/vs3zNwXhzSA?...

OK! I collected much of what I @spookyachu.bsky.social @andreaeyleen.bsky.social (and other collaborators not on here) have said on the Turing test (from critical, gendered, etc. angles) as it keeps being relevant: olivia.science/turing — hope it's useful for others too. Happy Sunday! 🤖💭

> To those who [...] use fear and intimidation to help sell the agenda of the big tech CEOs who [...] use coal-fired GPUs to capture society’s output and sell it back to us[...]: I not only scold you, I shun you. That goes double if I once admired and respected you.

ratfactor.com/tech-nope2

Artificial Intelligence in the 2020s

From Success - Failure FROM SUCCESS: FAILURE The fall of cloud computing

The war against the tech industry, and capital as a whole, seems lost. Take heart; we've lost battles but material conditions are shifting. The war is far from decided. In this deck, I propose their collapse born of apparent success: docs.google.com/presentation...

Exactly!

About such people, Tacitus wrote: "Excess flattery can disgust a man with some honesty: Annals 3.65: "It is reported that whenever Tiberius left the senate- house,he exclaimed in Greek: 'Men fit to be slaves!' Even he, freedom's enemy, became impatient at such low servility."

Right!

Right! Having spent my entire working life in and around corpos, it's fascinating to watch academic admins fall over themselves to mimic the executive class: a cohort of empowered dunces

Exactly. It's interesting: the industry has moved from bribery (such as donations and 'free' or low cost Microsoft Office copies and Chromebooks) to internal colonialism for super profits. It's an end stage move. Paging Mr. Lenin

Pardon the (crass?) self promotion but this seems appropos: www.youtube.com/live/sey7TS4...

Inside the booming world of being a mouthpiece for capital

Thanks!

‘A different set of rules’: thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship datacenters

The reason that the evil fucks who run this world keep pulling evil shit is because…

Who’s going to stop them? It isn’t any elected official I can tell you that much right now. If they were going to, they would have. A long time ago.

The 'AI discourse' (may the gods and goddesses of the literary form forgive me for using this terrible phrase) has uncovered a legion of terrible dudes. With each turn of the screw, they reveal themselves to be stupider, more dishonest and dreadful.

The thing is "take it seriously" often means "accept that we're creating Skynet," rather than grappling with real, concrete, well-established concerns around bias, deskilling, unemployment (not the same as "replacement"), and ecology.

I'm not surprised but, as Sun Tzu advised, to prepare the mind for battle, I'll definitely read! Also, your work is always a reward